r/MacOS • u/LeedsBorn1948 • 20h ago

News Version Tracker

Anyone who's been sad to see MacUpdater go, please take a look at Version Tracker.

Superb!

Deep in features, easy-to-use, pleasing interface, fast and (I venture to say) likely to be an all round winner…

(I'm just a fellow user like you. No investment in the product or company; except that it took me barely 10 minutes to subscribe.)

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u/Standard-Ant874 19h ago

I just opened the link, but couldn't figure out how it's suppose to be use. Mind to elaborate the use case?

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u/LeedsBorn1948 19h ago

u/Standard-Ant874 - you download, install, maybe have a peek at the settings (although the defaults work very well in most cases), then Scan.

It will report back on the status (multiple attributes) of all the apps it finds (which was many more in my case than either the excellent MacUpdater or Updatest).

Review the outdated apps, dependencies etc and either download updates, or have Version Tracker curate the updates for you. Adoption to HB also seems to work pretty seamlessly.

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u/Standard-Ant874 19h ago

I see, kinda like system admin tool. Thanks for explaining 🙂 

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u/LeedsBorn1948 18h ago

u/Standard-Ant874 - to begin with, Yes.

But very much more: security; compliance; avoidance of fakery; using HB's suggestions for possibly also-useful software; time-saving; double-checking for compatibilities and duplicates; record-keeping; authenticity - and so on.

But, as I say, my OP was intended merely to draw folks' attention to a fully-featured and streamlined piece of software which obviously fills a gap for the many who graduated from the original VT site/service to MacUpdate then the soon to be defunct MacUpdater. Not a case for such software at all.